Includes bibliographical references (p. [615]-618) and index
"The Mary Shelley we meet here, brilliantly brought to life from unexplored and intriguing sources, is a woman we can engage with and understand. She belongs as much to our own times as to the Romantic Age in which her life began. Her world, so rich in its settings and its cast of characters, seems at times drawn from a novel, and she, at its centre, is flawed, brave, generous, impetuous, a woman whose dark and brilliant imagination gave us a myth which seems ever more potent in our own era."--BOOK JACKET